(under subclass 222) Method or apparatus wherein a means for advancing a thread is rendered idle or inoperative when a knot or slub is detected in the thread.
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186+, for the stopping of a warp preparing or handling operation.
242, for the stopping of a thread stretching operation.
248+, for alteration of a thread texturing operation, including stopping.
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19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, 2+, for means for mechanically isolating and for manipulating fibers including the step of or means for causing cessation of operation in response to some condition occurring in the material being fed, or through a defect in the machine or its operation.
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining,
80+, for spinning or twisting machines provided with means either manually or automatically operated by the condition of the strand or material being operated on, as by failure, exhaustions, too much or too little tension, undue accumulations, etc., to facilitate or to effect the stopping thereof.
66, Textiles: Knitting,
158+, for knitting machines provided with means for ceasing the application of power to the driven parts of the knitting mechanism in response to an abnormal condition of a strand used by the mechanism.
72, Metal Deforming,
5, for randomly actuated stopping of a metal deforming operation responsive to termination or to the tangling of running length work.
83, Cutting,
58+, for randomly actuated stopping means for a cutting operation.
87, Textiles: Braiding, Netting, and Lace Making,
18+, for braiding netting or lace making apparatus provided with means, either automatically or manually controlled, for stopping or starting the entire apparatus, inclusive of initiation of the operation by means which sense a condition of a strand used by the apparatus. 112, Sewing,
279+, for driving mechanism for sewing machines which include devices to facilitate starting and stopping.
139, Textiles: Weaving,
336+, for mechanism to throw the loom out of operation.
200, Electricity: Circuit Makers and Breakers,
61.13+, for circuit makers and breakers which are controlled by continuous or indefinite lengths of material such as motion picture film, rope, yarn, endless belts and the like, traveling in a given path or being wound onto or unwound from spools or reels.
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length,
10+, for a device for advancing material of indeterminate length provided with detection means for sensing a condition of the advancing material and with a mechanism actuated by
said detection means for regulating a part which stops, or guides, or moves the material.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding,
472.9+, 479.9+, 484.8, and 484.9+ for a helical winding device having controls responsive to material condition or the state of a winding operation.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus, 136+, for means responsive to an abnormal condition to completely stop operation of the machine.
